Cholera first attacked England in October in the year 1831 and it spread all round the country. Thousands of people faced death within two years of this disease starting. People were mortally afraid of cholera as there was no cure for it.

The symptoms of cholera are diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and dehydration, which drastically decreases fluids in the body. The skin of the person infected turns bluish grey, the eyes sink in and the body becomes cold.

Asiatic cholera, which is also called as spasmodic cholera, originated from India. This plague broke in the year 1917 in Bengal and it is then that European doctors started taking notice of it. In a few decades, the disease spread to China, the Middle East, Europe and the United States through trade routes.

The second epidemic of cholera broke out in England in the years 1848 and 1849, and killed 50,000 to 70,000 people living in Wales and England. It broke out a third time in the year 1854, and in London alone around 30,000 people succumbed to it. Doctors tried to make medicines for this disease, but they could not come up with an effective one.

In the starting years of the nineteenth century, the population of London increased to 2.5 million. The city flourished with trading and manufacturing industries which produced all kinds of things starting from woolen cloth to weapons. Families from the rural areas moved to the urban areas, and in many houses there were 8 to 9 living in the same room with the animals in the tenement buildings. It made easy for cholera to develop.

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